-- 2018-06-28 17:29:14
China is committed to peace but will not give up "even one inch" of territory, President Xi Jinping has said, after talks with visiting US Defence Secretary James Mattis. Tensions between both countr...
-- 2018-06-28 17:14:12
A meeting of the Core Group of SAARC Immigration Authorities and Visa Experts began on Thursday at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu, Nepal. Comprising representatives from the Immigration Authoriti...
-- 2018-06-28 16:19:46
Five people were killed in a small airplane crashed in a suburb of India’s financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, police and aviation officials said. The King Air C-90 aircraft was on a test f...
-- 2018-06-28 11:35:09
Iran has reopened a nuclear plant idle for nine years, its atomic energy agency (AEOI) said on Wednesday, as Tehran prepares to increase uranium enrichment capacity if a nuclear deal with world powers...
-- 2018-06-27 17:52:18
Malaysian police have seized a trove of jewellery, handbags and cash worth up to $273m (£206m) from properties linked to former prime minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor. A $1.6m go...
-- 2018-06-27 12:54:30
Floods and landslides caused by heavy rain over the weekend in Vietnam's northern mountainous provinces have claimed 19 human lives, left 11 local people missing, and injured 12 others, the country's...
-- 2018-06-26 21:28:27
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has promised his countrymen to handle the economic pressure of new US sanctions. The president came up the statement on Tuesday amid reports of a second day of demonst...
-- 2018-06-26 20:35:20
Within hours of the EU’s sanction announcement, the Myanmar military announced that one of the generals had been fired on Monday and another had left the army last month after being removed from...
-- 2018-06-26 19:05:36
An outbreak of polio has been confirmed in Papua New Guinea, 18 years after the country was declared free of the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the virus was detected in a six-year...
-- 2018-06-26 11:22:05
Syrian state news agency SANA said two Israeli missiles hit in the vicinity of Damascus international airport in the early hours of Tuesday morning, without giving further details. The Syrian Observa...
-- 2018-06-25 14:48:56
At least six Islamic State (IS) militants were killed after NATO and US-led coalition forces launched airstrikes on IS hideouts in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar Sunday night, authorities...
-- 2018-06-25 11:38:52
Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least seven people and left 12 missing in northern Vietnam since Saturday, the government’s Disaster Management Authority...
-- 2018-06-24 15:35:27
Pakistani Taliban said the group has named Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud as the new chief and Mufti Mazaham alias Mufti Hazratas his deputy after confirming the death of Mullah Fazlullah by a US drone attack...
Agencies 2018-06-24 11:05:44
Women in Saudi Arabia took to the roads at midnight on Sunday, ending a decades-old driving ban, long seen as an emblem of women’s repression in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom. The chan...
-- 2018-06-23 13:41:43
Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the country’s southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U...
-- 2018-06-23 11:20:56
Thirty-three pregnant Cambodian women who were carrying babies on behalf of Chinese clients have been discovered during a raid on an illegal commercial surrogacy operation, police said on Saturday. F...
-- 2018-06-22 18:55:12
Cannabis plants have been found growing in the grounds of a Japanese parliamentary building in Tokyo. The country has a strict no-tolerance policy towards drugs and possession of even a small amount...
-- 2018-06-22 17:33:41
Women in Saudi Arabia will start driving cars for the first time ever from Sunday as a decades-old ban ends on the day. The interior ministry of the conservative Muslim kingdom is taking preparations...
-- 2018-06-22 17:02:27
China will build a railway connecting the western region of Tibet with Nepal, the China Daily reported on Friday. The move is one of several bilateral deals signed during Nepali Prime Minister Khadg...
-- 2018-06-22 15:38:53
The Philippines is planning to take President Rodrigo Duterte’s ferocious drugs war to schools with the inspection of bags and lockers, as well as random testing for teachers, to curb demand for...
-- 2018-06-22 15:36:12
Taliban militants killed at least 16 Afghan police and two civilians in western Badghis province after their three-day ceasefire for the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday ended at the weekend, officials said on Fri...
-- 2018-06-22 15:09:55
Armed with interactive online courses, generous funding and new dedicated research institutes, China’s universities are on the frontlines of an effort to promote the thinking of President Xi Jin...
-- 2018-06-22 14:04:46
An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced to death a cleric linked to Islamic State, for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly militant attacks across the world’s largest Muslim-majo...
-- 2018-06-21 18:51:17
Japan has halted evacuation drills simulating a North Korean missile attack in the wake of historic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, local media reported Thursday. Government officials d...
-- 2018-06-21 15:58:33
The Taliban killed eight police in two separate attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. Arif Noori, a spokesman for the governor of the southern Ghazni province, says six police were kill...
-- 2018-06-21 11:57:43
China will maintain normal relations with Iran, the Commerce Ministry in Beijing said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Gao Feng made the comment when asked at a regular news briefing if Chinese firms...
-- 2018-06-20 16:40:22
Australia has announced that it will hold a national inquiry into workplace sexual harassment. The investigation is in part a response to the global #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct, Sex Dis...
-- 2018-06-20 14:06:45
Taliban militants killed 30 Afghan soldiers and captured a military base in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, the provincial governor said, their first major attack since a ceasefire for t...
-- 2018-06-19 20:25:24
Archaeologists have discovered a city dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1384-1644) in China's Jiangxi province. Covering an area of around 550,000 square metres, the city site in Tianbao village is sh...
-- 2018-06-19 18:34:30
A Japanese company has launched a line of business suits specifically for blue-collar workers, it's reported. According to the Japan Times, the Oasys Style Wear company in Tokyo is launching a line o...
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